ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Archaeology: Volume XIX 2025

Arsen Bobokhyan, PhD in Archaeology, is a Director and Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA. He specializes in the Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of the Armenian Highlands and the Near East, focusing in particular on ancient cults and cultural contacts. Bobokhyan currently leads excavations on Mt. Aragats and the eastern shores of Lake Sevan in Armenia. He is a co-founder and a vice-editor of the journal Aramazd.Yervand Grekyan, PhD in History, Dr. habil. is a Leading Researcher and Research Professor at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (NAS RA). His research focuses on the history and culture of the Armenian Highlands from the second to the first millennia BC. He is a co-founder and a vice-editor of the journal Aramazd.

• Foreword Reviving vessels: Deconstruction of the khachkar in late medieval tombstone imagery – Levon Abrahamian, Ara Demirkhanyan†The unglazed pottery of Dvin in the 9th century according to the archaeological works of 2023 – Hamazasp AbrahamyanAruch Cathedral complex: New archaeological insights into the stratigraphy and historical development – Astghik Babajanyan, Sergio Ferdinandi, Chiara Mascarello, Elena Fausti, and Francesca GalantiThe architectural layout of the first Christian temples in the Kingdom of Iberia (In light of new archaeological discoveries) – Nodar BakhtadzeLes colophons de Siméon de Płndzahank‘ du point de vue du problème de l’identité – Azat BozoyanDmanisi medieval necropolis – new epigraphic evidence – Jimsher Chkhvimiani, Harutyun Khudanyan, and Vladimer KekeliaThe complex world of prince Jǔ anšēr of Caucasian Albania (d. 669) illuminated by the social, cultural, educational, and religious discontinuities of Dawt‘ak K‘ert‘oł’s lament – S. Peter CoweUn type méconnu d’église funéraire – Patrick DonabédianLa Lettera di Macario di Gerusalemme e la questione di battisteri nell’Armenia paleocristiana – Nazénie GaribianThe ‘Great prince’ Chesar Orbelian and Chesar’s palace as a unique monument of historical and cultural heritage – Avetis Grigoryan, Levon Vasilyan, Hayk Danielyan, Arman Eghiazaryan, Anna Baghdasaryan, Astghik Simonyan, Tigran Zakyan, Astghik Arzumanyan, Susanna Babayan, and Hasmik SimonyanThe study of the Armenian epigraphic heritage of the Holy Land: A bibliographical survey – Khachik HarutyunyanPreliminary observations on the agricultural economy of Dvin – Ruben HovsepyanThe Four Gospels copied by Maximus of Tao in the Jerusalem Collection of Georgian Manuscripts – Vladimer KekeliaAt the foot of the Ararat: Dambat/Tambat. A medieval Armenian ‘city’ on the foothills of Lesser Ararat mountain, Maku county, Iran – Behrouz Khanmohammadi, Ebrahim Bodaqi, Onofrio Gasparro, and Roberto DanDeath and memory in the rock: Newly discovered medieval rock-cut complex of Ohanavan – Mher Khechoyan, Dianna Mirijanyan, and Hasmik SimonyanArmenian toponyms based on plant-names in the province of Syunik – Hrach Martirosyan and Anna AramyanLa reine Mélisende – Claude Armen MutafianArmenianate expressions: Exploring the Armenian contribution to the formation of Great Imperial Traditions in the Middle Ages  – Michele NucciottiReflections on Jews in Medieval Armenia and Armenian sources – Zaroui PogossianStudying ceramics according to the stratigraphic method: Some examples from the Dvin case-study – Elisa PrunoEthnogenesis of Caucasian Muslim Tats, Tats-speaking Armenians (Armenian-Tats) and Mountain Jews in light of a number of features of their languages – Igor SemyonovThe typology of iron nails discovered from the tomb of the martyr of Tsitsernavank  – Hakob Simonyan and Elena AtoyantsGlazed ceramics of the 8th-9th centuries from the city of Dvin – Tatyana VardanesovaMeghretsots St. Astvatsatsin church in Shushi – Nzhdeh YeranyanSummaries Ամփոփումներ Abbreviations